de Jong K, Martinmäki SE, te Brake H, Komproe IH, Kleber RJ, et al.
2023-05-17 • BJPsych Open
2023-05-17 • BJPsych Open
BACKGROUND Most staff stay healthy during humanitarian work, although some worsen. Mean scores on health indicators may be masking individual participants struggling with health...
Martinmäki SE, de Jong K, Komproe IH, Boelen PA, Kleber RJ
2023-02-07 • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
2023-02-07 • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
To date, there have been no cohort studies of sexual harassment incidence and its relation to mental health within humanitarian field-workers. Research among numerous occupations suggest...
The efficacy of a mental health program in Bosnia-Herzegovina: impact on coping and general health
Mooren TTM, de Jong K, Kleber RJ, Ruvic J
2003-01-01 • Journal of Clinical Psychology
2003-01-01 • Journal of Clinical Psychology
The efficacy of a community-based psychosocial program in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the war and immediate postwar years (1994-1999) was described in this article. Ten centers provided va...
de Jong K, Martinmäki SE, Brake HT, Kleber RJ, Haagen JFG, et al.
2022-11-16 • PLOS One
2022-11-16 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND International humanitarian aid workers (iHAWs) are motivated strongly to travel abroad to help communities affected by war, famine, disaster and disease. They expose thems...
de Jong K, Ariti C, van der Kam S, Mooren TTM, Shanks L, et al.
2016-06-17 • PLOS One
2016-06-17 • PLOS One
Existing tools for evaluating psychosocial interventions (un-validated self-reporting questionnaires) are not ideal for use in non-Western conflict settings. We implement a generic metho...
Médecins Sans Frontières has been involved in emergency mental health or psychosocial programmes since 1990. In this article the intervention model developed for emergency settings is sh...
Compared to psychosocial programs implemented in post-conflict settings those executed in areas of ongoing conflicts may have different effects. Their evidence of efficacy has never been...
de Jong K, Martinmäki SE, Te Brake H, Haagen JFG, Kleber RJ
2021-09-01 • Social Science and Medicine
2021-09-01 • Social Science and Medicine
Research findings show humanitarian work impacts one's health. We conducted a prospective observational study among 618 international humanitarian aid workers (iHAWs)’ recruited from 76 ...
de Jong K, van der Kam S, Swarthout TD, Ford NP, Mills C, et al.
2011-12-05 • Journal of Traumatic Stress
2011-12-05 • Journal of Traumatic Stress
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, exposure to traumatic stressors, and health care utilization were examined in 84 women attending a primary health care clinic in Mogadishu,...
de Jong J, van de Kam S, Ford NP, Lokuge K, Fromm S, et al.
2008-10-14 • Conflict and Health
2008-10-14 • Conflict and Health
BACKGROUND: India and Pakistan have disputed ownership of the Kashmir Valley region for many years, resulting in high level of exposure to violence among the civilian population of Kashm...
